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diff --git a/TAO/COPYING b/TAO/COPYING index f46cdce0959..b19f5db43e0 100644 --- a/TAO/COPYING +++ b/TAO/COPYING @@ -1,11 +1,25 @@ COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FOR TAO TAO is copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at -Washington University, Copyright (c) 1997, all rights reserved, and -portions by SunSoft (need to get the full SunSoft copyright chunk into -here). - -It's primary purpose is a research vehicle for those wishing to -experiment with the real-time aspects of CORBA. It IS NOT a product, -nor should it be treated as such; the user assumes complete -responsibility for any and all results of the use of this ORB. +Washington University, Copyright (c) 1997, all rights reserved. In +addition, some portions of TAO (particularly the IIOP protocol engine) +are copyrighted by SunSoft (see the ./IIOP/lib/COPYING.sun file for +more details). Likewise, TAO relies heavily on ACE, which is also +copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at Washington +University (see the ../COPYING file for more details). + +You are free to do anything you like with the Wash. U. portions of +TAO's source code (and object code produced from the source). For +instance, you can include it in commercial software, as long as you +include this copyright statement along with code built using TAO. + +You are under no obligation to freely redistribute any of your source +code that is built using TAO. Please note, however, that you may not +do anything to the ACE code that will prevent it from being +distributed freely (such as copyrighting it or claiming authorship). +Naturally, neither I nor my research group is responsible for any +problems caused by the use of TAO. + + Douglas C. Schmidt + schmidt@cs.wustl.edu + |